... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant.

A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will it is reported raise her skirt to cover her face.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

A billion dollars isnt what it used to be.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

Confusion is the first step toward clarity