Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.