I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

You try, you fail. You try, you fail. But only when you stop trying, do you really fail.-Madam Leota

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.