Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

“Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.”

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Being honest may not get you many friends, but it will get you the right ones.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.