A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.