My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.