Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.