Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

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

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.