make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only - those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned. - Colton

Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

Being a servant will take you places where your talent will never take you.