A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil. '
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.
I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.