What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Capitalism brings wealth and inequality with intellectuality.

Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.

When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.

Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

Talk to the man with the reasons why.

And I am in retirement from love.