In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.