To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.