Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.

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.

You ought to pray, read and mediate on word of God. These acts lead to the greatest spiritual awaken.

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.

With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

There's something about that suit, he'll feel like, 'Whoa,' he'll feel like a different person, and that's what it's about.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

I only have control over what I do.

I act when I’m not in the mood.

Dance... enjoy each step along the way.