There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel. Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed or until he was crucified — whichever came first.

When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you.

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

Time flows smoother when you are with people you love.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

I don't think bonuses are always bad.

Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.