“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

There are only three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

In a consumer society there are two kind of slaves: prisoners of addiction and envy.

This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.