Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world - constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being, but it is the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Dare to be yourself.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. ... Hi, Mom!

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.