You can never have too much money.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.