The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.

Those who dare try and failure are courageous souls.

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.

Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!

Like we were connected, the echo of his pain twisted inside inside me. his pain, my pain.