Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.