The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.

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.

God loves justice and He desires mankind to love the same.

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.