"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings."

"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."

"Maybe it's what's inside that counts, but being told you look good feels good!"

"Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful."

"Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment."

"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity."

"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."

"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."

"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh."

"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."