On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Freedom

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow?

Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.

When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.