The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.