There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells within you?

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules