Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.