Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.