An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

That which costs little is less valued.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.