Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.
Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.
Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.
The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.
Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.
Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.
Many think that assigning blame settles matters.
My nostalgia is for the impossible.
Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.
Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.
Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.
To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.
Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.
I know God exits, but I don't know where.
A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.
Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.
Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.
