She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet.

People who personify excellence are people who invoke the same in others.

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.

While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that.

First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

A need is life seeking expression within us.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.