God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.