Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

What I learned on my own I still remember

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

Writing is the only way I know how to pray.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment

To love is to choose.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.