Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.