Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

Women speak in the superlative.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

What is it like after you die? Just like it was before you were born.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.