Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.