A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

I love that I have a job that I love.

You don't love someone out of loyalty... nor out of sympathy, either.

It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.

I want Thailand to be a peaceful country.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.