George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Humanity isn't just a work, but it's a divine nature which makes you God.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

It's never right to give up on someone.

O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.