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

Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact.

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.

Now they can do the radio in so many languages that nobody any longer dreams of a single language, and there should not any longer be dreams of conquest because the globe is all one, anybody can hear everything and everybody can hear the same thing, so what is the use of conquering.

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