Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

You can never escape God's Grace because as you run from it, you run to it.

My faith is important. I have nothing without it.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

I will sit there on the air and look at every position and play devil's advocate.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

When I started skiing my pants were baggy and my cheeks were tight------Now my cheeks are baggy and my pants are tight.