Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

Celebrate your life, you are your own light.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

Life may suck but death is worse.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.