Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.