Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.