Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Trees are your best antiques

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

When I turn down the volume, it's amazing how much I can actually hear.

Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

I enjoy hearing the way people think. I always have.

Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.