Malice blunts the point of wit.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Shoes are like society. Once in awhile they have to replace the worn out souls.

If I listened to all the noise in the worldI would have many standards to conform to But the zeal to succeedCuts through the racket

As I think of myself, so I shall be.

Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

On the set of Besharam I had to refrain from smoking, out of respect for my parents

I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?