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

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

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

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.