Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

We're a country that owes $20 trillion. They [Japan, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] have to help us out.

Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.