Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

One lives everything down in time.

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give

It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

I'm very romantic and very soppy, but sometimes I wish I wasn't!

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.