In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
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.
Boards don't hit back.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.