prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit

The beginning of a new millennium is to consider and reorganize our life

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.