In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
Genius is sorrow's child.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
