Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.