I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

In times of adversity, our only anchor is hope.

God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.

Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight.

We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

If someone at Fleet Farm offers you assistance and they don't work there you might live in Wisconsin.

the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet.

I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.