When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.