The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.