Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.

It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.

Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

Life is the best party I've ever been invited to.

apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers.

Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily?

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King.

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about.

There is only one death, so let it be in the path of Allah