Everything else seemed trivial

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

I don't believe in dieting, but I do believe in the lifestyle that you want to live.