Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.

She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.