I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

Nothing transformed the politics, the economy and the table of Europe like the potato. The tuber from Peru.

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

You can take on the world in a good suit.

I will not propose to you that my way is best. The decision is up to you. If you find some point which may be suitable to you, then you can carry out experiments for yourself. If you find that it is of no use, then you can discard it.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

The oranges, it is true, are not all exactly of the same size, but careful machinery sorts them so that automatically all those in one box are exactly similar. They travel along with suitable things being done to them by suitable machines at suitable points until they enter a suitable refrigerator car in which they travel to a suitable market. The machine stamps the word “Sunkist” upon them, but otherwise there is nothing to suggest that nature has any part in their production.