The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

That you were able to walk away, gives me my answer as plain as day.

Like the sun and the moon loved each other, Like the sky loved the stars, The sun and the moon couldn't shine together and the sky couldn't have stars forever.

Self-change can only come after self-understanding.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.

One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.