Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

There is too little courtship in the world.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense.

Mishaque was a stouty blend of Irish "shrek" mixed with crazy Jafakain, his front was car dealing.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

We are not afraid to be entertainers.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

As thou thinkest, so art thou.