What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

To think is to say 'no.'

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.

If she would just let herself go I would be there to catch her if she fell but she wasn't ready to take that step yet."Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions

That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.