There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.