People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

There is nothing so catching as refinement.

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.

If you thing political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient speech and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

The world is less violent than it has ever been.

My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Just because you're home, you don't have to answer the phone.

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.