As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

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

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.

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

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.