How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.

The secret of directing is working with really good people.

Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.