When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.

Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.