The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.