When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in Honour's truckle-bed.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Hospital is a place where they wake you up to give you a sleeping pill.

George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.

Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side -- if we could know!

All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

The heart is the first feature of working minds. -Frank Lloyd Wright.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on forecasters.