It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

Beware the ire of the calm.

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.