I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.