"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Do you love yourself enough to BE what you love yourself enough to WANT?

Be the hero, the example and the perfection that you are.

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.