We do not write as we want, but as we can.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.