Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

How would she find her herd? How would she find you?

The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

I wouldn't change a thing about my family.

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.