What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

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.