Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

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.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

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

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

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

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.