God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

The most essential step in marketing your services is selecting an occupation you can throw yourself into wholeheartedly.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

Good positions don't win games, good moves do

I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.