Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.