Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

The stars have a strong effect on our daily shopping lives. Hollywood is astrology’s only credible conspiracy.

Spread the light of your love through the magic of smile.

Music heals the soul, we kneel to the fallen.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.