Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

Trust me, ’ he says with a touch of impatience.‘Stop asking me to do that, ’ I say, equally as impatiently.

A lot of people don't believe in curses.A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

I'm going to fight as hard as I can to make sure people have the futures that they deserve here in America.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

I've had to do a lot of growing quickly for my career and owning that I'm the boss. I used to play every single one of the roles and now I have to remember that I'm the boss.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.