If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.