Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

See beauty everywhere, and let your heart dance with it.

Do not kick people when they are down because you will surely fall right beside them.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality

I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.

Just because people starve in a book, doesn't mean that we will starve in the future.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.