The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

The future ain't what it used to be.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.