To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

If politicians would think more they would act less.

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.