You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two and wear my dagger with the braver grace

Your WHY for your BRAND is more important than the HOW.

All things lie dark in possibility.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

There's no end to the stoppage of this drama

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again