There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.

This tree was a vast cylinder of wood. It filled the sky. The limbs reached out above me, a great canopy sheltering the rest of the trees, as if they were its children.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

I think the biggest thing for all athletes is recovery - being able to bounce back from week to week, practice to practice, to come back in top form.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.

Well, then, do it then, boy.