As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

Retirement with its open canvas, is an especially opportune time to cultivate expanded experiences.

Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

Right foot, left foot, hemorrhage.

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

The first rule for success? Show up.

Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.