The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.