Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

Keep your lies short and simple.

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.