We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can get it from blood transfusions.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

I grew up listening to English music.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.