Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.