"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too"
"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones"
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing"
"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it"
"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less"
"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all"
"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally"
"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it"
"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is"
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise"
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent"
"Have common sense and stick to the point"
"Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous"
"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother"
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit"
"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too"
"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ"
"I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written"
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me"
