The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?