There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.