Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.