To lose is not always failure.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.