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“Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.”
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“They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.”
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“Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.”
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“Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 220), 1895.
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“I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all species of Earth life than any two species of Earth life are from each other.”
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“It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer.....that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.”
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“Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.”
Source : "JPMorgan CEO Hits Back at Policymakers in Davos" by Yousef Gamal El-Din, Antonia van de Velde, www.cnbc.com. January 23, 2013. 
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“Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”
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“Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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“Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.”
