Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

What a blessing it is to love books.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

Most emerging markets are skipping web based technology and go straight to mobile

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

I got everybody on my side through comedy.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.