People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Marriage is the only Institution With One Access: Entrance Only, No Exit, No Outing Option So Look Well Before You Dive Into It

Any love that is solely based on physical beauty, is a stranger to longevity.

Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.

Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.