In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you.

My love is like a magical dancing spirit. It is mighty but affable

The beauty he saw in her was the beauty she forgot to see in herself and what a beautiful reminder, that love is what will see us all through.

The past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as décor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

When we do the hard stuff for the first 20 years we will have an easier life for the 60, but if we take it easy for the first 20 then we will live a life of struggle later on.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3, 100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.