I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

To reproduce your life is to impact the world with it.

All happy families are alike

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.

If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

It's tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality - who hasn't seen you on TV and is like, 'Hey!'

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.