The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Memory feeds imagination.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.