What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

When you have an unshakeable faith in what you seek, the length of its journey becomes irrelevant.

I thought Candy Mountain was a real place

The best predictor of future events is probably past events.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.

A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.

The key thing about any fund is to make sure its expenses are low. You know, if you look at the funds in your plan and you see that they're all charging 1.5 and 2 percent,you've gota bad plan.