It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.