Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Only pain can define the meaning of tears.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.