Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

I was out once and had wine and I got sick to my stomach, and I vowed I would never drink again.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.