Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The mechanics of Nature ensures that the shadow of yesterday doesn't eclipse the dawn of tomorrow.

Mario the Magnificent is Orange!" His eyes sparkle with eagerness as he winks at me.

I have just returned from Boston it is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.