It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become best friends.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Walter Lippmann

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Alice Stone Blackwell

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Rudolf Bing

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow

We cannot think of two things at the same time.

Blaise Pascal

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker

Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

Giada De Laurentiis

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

George Moore

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Eleanor Roosevelt