It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.