If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.