To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in external situations cause internal friction you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.

Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.