Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.

The Lord delivers those who delight in Him.

You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse.

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

A dance to the music of time.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.