Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.