People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.