The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

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

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

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