A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

Love rains against backcloth of unconditional emotion which washes away even pinch of hatred.

When your heart is broken, it’s easier to follow rules

As we mature and develop awareness to match our potential, our ability to enjoy full health is realized. As we enjoy this fruit, we sow the seeds of greatness in our children.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.