I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

You have no idea how powerful it can be the truth.""No tienes ni idea de lo poderosa que puede ser la verdad.

Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith uncovers the possible.

Change is the only evidence of life.

Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

There's no good story without romance.