You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.