Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.