In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.