When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

Authority doesn't work without prestige or prestige without distance.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work unfortunately.

Traveling you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities places exchange their form order distances a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.