Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.