It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.