In a man they forgive anything. In a woman nothing.

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

When you can't change a thing, don't let it change you.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.