Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

He talked with more claret than clarity

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Evil is something you need to fight until it ceases trying to control you.

For Love...Real Love...The Kind Of Love That Lasts Forever...

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

Death is Life's high meed.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.