I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Be liked and you will never want.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.