My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly