Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

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 test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.