The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

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

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 price of Justice is eternal publicity.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.