A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.