Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal.

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

The faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

I just always loved pinball.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.