To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

The wind plays its own music.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.

When I first held my daughter, right after she was born, I felt like it was the moment I'd been waiting my whole life for, and it just felt even more miraculous than I ever could have imagined.

Strength is the outcome of need.

Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.

Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt.

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.