If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear. . .

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it the vibration from their instruments, do you suppose, working on the brain? All that fraught buzzing?