Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.