A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.