You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

It is only the wife, and not just any woman, who constitutes the noble soil that produces excellent fruits

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity

Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with, you're just gonna end up lonely.

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history.