We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.

Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.

Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.