You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

Our mind is like a fog; even a moderate wind disperses it easily.

I do think women change the discourse in Senate and I think it is more civil when women are involved.