Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?