When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Christians in their relationships should be the most human people you will ever see. This speaks for God in an age of inhumanity and impersonality and facelessness. When people look at us, their reaction should be, "These are human people" -- human, because we know that we differ from the animal, the plant, and the machine; and that personality is native to what has always been [human]. If they cannot look upon us and say, "They are real people", nothing else is enough. (Continued tomorrow).

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Oh! to be wafted away From this black Aceldama of sorrow, Where the dust of an earthy to-day Makes the earth of a dusty to-morrow.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head.