There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.