Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

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

Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.