I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Taking care of your thoughts is at least as important as taking care of your body - if not even more important.

Living a happy life is more than enough.

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

Put your f***ing finger down now before I break it off.

Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon that God has given us.

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.