Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most.

The fog comes on little cat feet.

We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons.

Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.