It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.