To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other."

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

"If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a month. The new thing could be inconsequential: steak for breakfast, frog hunting, walking on stilts . . . anything not ordinarily done."

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.