As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.