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.

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.

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.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.

I can never understand someone by his strengths. Nothing is revealed there. I can only understand people by their weaknesses.

Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu

Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

I'm not so weird to me.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

You are the sunshine of my life! Thanks for brightening my world with the warmth of your Love.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.