I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.