On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
