You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her?

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

Do fewer things and do them well. Focus on the things only you can do. Do the important things which must be done now.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

Relationships don't exist... Relating does.

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless!

There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it

I won't talk about someone's mother. I won't talk about their girlfriend or their wife, but if you have a deformity, I would talk about that.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.