Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.

Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

To know Paris, Bruno began, pulling on his cigarette, you need to relax, have a glass of wine, and enjoy life.

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

Me. I like to have fun. I'm like a kid in a candy story out there.

There is always time enough in a day to do God's will.