Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.