The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.