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

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

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

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.