The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.