A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

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.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.