I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.