The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Once upon a timeI fell in loveLost myselfAnd find another one.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.

Worn out places, worn out faces.

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.