Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
