All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

All the inspiration that you need is already inside you. You just have to be determined enough to let it out.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

That which is denied cannot be healed.

I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.