1419  The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

1497  My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

965  The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

1040  Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

725  Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.