When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.