Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.
Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.
Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.
We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.
Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.
. . . if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort of crisis. . . . intimacy creates a special environment for two people, and the deeper the intimacy, the more they both live within it, the closer its boundaries usually are, so that all that lies beyond them becomes with time not less but more and more of a mystery.
Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.
A man's head is his castle.
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. . . . I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.
I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world. . . Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.