Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Stretch your writing muscles. Maybe the sophisticated technique nagging at you is something you’re just naturally good at. How else will you know?

All worthwhile endeavours begin in your thoughts, and focusing your thoughts appropriately will increase your chances of success.

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for; it’s Lulu too.

Communism is just one big telephone company.

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.