It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.
Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.
A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.
We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.
I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.
There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.
I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only a hole surrounded by steel - can be based only on what one does not have; and that ultimately one can write only to fill a void or at the least to situate, in relation to the most lucid part of ourselves, the place where this incommensurable abyss yawns within us.
Hiding spending does not reduce spending.
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.