It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Success is never about money, it's always about talent.

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.