Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

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.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

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.