One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.