Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.

Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.