real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Brave cubs become fierce lions.

One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it may be

To test a man, determine how much it takes to make him lie.

You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.

I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!