One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.