The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.