There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

I'm not here to be remembered, I'm here to be alive.

We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

You can't love nature with a gun

I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.