There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.