Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
I look up at the universe and ask, What are you trying to teach me here?’ I know I won’t hear a reply, but asking the question, makes me begin looking for the answer.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.
When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.
Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong.
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
The seven deadly sins… food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
