To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

The insights gathered from those relatively unique experiences can add wisdom to our own travels.

Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.

If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.

Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food - it's fun, and it could save your life!

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.