Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

If you cannot handle the pressure, don't be an entrepreneur. Go get a job!

Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.