We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
New roads; new ruts.
