But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

When Europe senses danger, it needs to do something to keep all the Africans at home where they belong.

If you ask her to do things on command, like clap or walk, she just shuts down. She does not want to perform.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

The rain of matter upon sense Destroys me momently. The score: There comes what will come.