Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

When thou art above measure angry bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions measurements and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love beauty friendship or decency for example?