I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.