Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

This world is the playing ground of our thoughts and imaginations which create our perceptions.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

What's money without happiness?

I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

Love is not what you say; love is what you do

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!