If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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.

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.