Only the dead have no troubles.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

I wish I'd known you when you were alive.

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

A doctor is a man licensed to make grave mistakes.

Creativity is the most supreme form of love. When it flows from any heart flooded by truth and light, it can change all those who encounter its seductive vibrations.

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.