You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.

Sometimes the heart speaks, and the brain does not understand the language.

The brief silence that follows is as tender as arainstorm of daisies.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

Belief does not change what is.

You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.

He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.

We know sugar increases insulin, but even by itself sugar is bad for you.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.