One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Good music always defeats bad luck

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.

Love isn't meant to hurt. But if it does, then it is absolutely not a true love.

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.