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Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.


Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same thing can be said of the most weak.


My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards…I believe our best days are yet to come.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.


You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.


That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.


Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
