He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.

Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.

Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down.

I constantly reminded myself with the fact that the world isn't about what's fair, but how you cope with what is unfair.

Now that I have the opportunities to do a lot, I want to do less.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Balls in general are not a good looking item.