You can be sorry you aren't perfect, but never be sorry for being yourself.
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
You spend the first part of your life collecting things. . . and the second half getting rid of them.
Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape. . . . For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.
What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
I think Saturday may be Latin for "stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.