Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
A smiling face is half the meal.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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.