...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

Little with love is better than much without love.

And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

Sometimes while you're cooking it's messy but the outcome is good. The end result is all that counts.

Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.