I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the...
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.
The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.