I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

There is nothing like race, is there?

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

Trust life. Trust your Creator. He will not deliver you to anything but the best.

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,

If given a choice between stoic justice and compassion, I choose compassion. And if given a choice between worldly leadership and heaven at my feet—I choose heaven.

Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.

I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.