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

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

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.