An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.