True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.

I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.