Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

All excellence is equally difficult.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.