We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

The fault is not in our stars, " I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.