Jane stood beside silver platters of cucumber sandwiches and smoked salmon sandwiches and savory-sweet ham sandwiches and open-faced sandwiches with thickly spread butter and fresh mint.

Agnes walked in with a tray of gorgeous raspberry tortes, fruit sorbet, and pistachio ice.

There is no love for God without love for man

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

Topcats often begin as underdogs.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.