If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?