Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.