We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

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.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.