The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.