The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.