What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

You will not be here--I shall not be here--much lo

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

Books are more real when you read them outside.

Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

The longer you verk here, diverse it gets.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.

I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.