No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested.

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.

I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

I believe I've come to understand something. Love isn't always big and dramatic. It's big, it's deep, but it's also quiet and calm.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.