Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.