Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.