everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.