What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.