An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

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.

Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.