Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland ,

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

Don't measure your life by how many breaths you take, measure it by how many times you get your breath taken away.

He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.

Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.