Gertrude Stein

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realize the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

After all, human beings are like that. When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone.

It often makes me know that as a cousin of mine once said about money, money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Propaganda is not French, it is not civilized to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilised is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.