You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

In my ArtI have butone fear:that we willfail to befearless.

What you want in life is possible to achieve. Find the courage and begin the work

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.

Death's in the good-bye.

The prayer of faith is the only kind that is real prayer, and it is trust in God with full acknowledgment of God's power and love.

Forget normal.” He grinned. “We’re going to be extraordinary.

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

The package destroys not just the peace process but all the peace dynamics in society. This is a bid to crush opposition.