Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

Books are keys that open many doors.

Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food.

I'm one that likes to collaborate. I love feeding off the creative energy, and it only makes me better.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.