A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

Learn in good time to recognize disillusionment, so as to continue living your life according to the will of the Lord

I can assure you that the life outside the front door is full of optimism and energy

If I never get to see the Northern lights. Or if I never get to see the Eiffel Tower at night. Oh, if all I got, is your hand in my hand, baby I could die, a happy man.

What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.