It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.