Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.