When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.