It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack.

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

Kings can only use their best tools.

The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

You're looking for a reason, " she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.