It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.

Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.

I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.

You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.