It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.

It's always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won't be so crazy.

Experience is bitter. But it fruits is sweet like honey.

The one who cannot see your vision will be blinded by your mission.

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.