Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

There are certain racetracks where I feel like I could run 1,000 miles.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.