Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

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

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.