There's no friends like the old friends.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people.

Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.