The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.