Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.

What is poetry? Only the poetry can answer this!

When one is at the edge and falls then it’s a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that’s what’s life is about.

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.

My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote