The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

I can be a lazy dresser.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.