People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

As long as you feel comfortable losing, you will never win!

the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.

The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut your face.' 'Exactly my point.

Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.