Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

OK you maybe can't buy happiness with Cosmic Ordering, but it's much better crying in a mansion than in a hovel.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!