I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

I grabbed my purse, which was conveniently place by the front door. Gabriel was such a considerate abductor/host. He even left the front door unpadlocked.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.