The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

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.

I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

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

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.