You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

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.

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

Home was more than a house. It was a place in a person's heart.

As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.

Your direction is more important than your speed.

There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.