If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.