"The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm."

"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting that we have just had one."

"Charity is a good way of reminding God that if we can do it, He can."

"There's little enough to be said for nationalism, so let's say it and have done."

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."

"Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down."

"Injure a businessman and he'll try to make you sorry; injure an artist and he'll try to make you immortal."

"Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway."

"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."

"Money is the best counterfeit money."

"The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it."

"Money is much more exciting than anything it buys."

"If everyone gave a tenth of his worldly goods to the person he most admired, the rich would just get richer."

"An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of."

"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."

"In church, sacred music would make believers of us all—but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance."

"When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy."

"Sooner or later, they govern who are determined to."

"What you were sure of yesterday, you know now to be false, but what you are sure of today is absolutely true."

"The plague of government is senile delinquency."

"Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend."

"The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances."

"Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't."

"Age is a slowing down of everything except fear."

"We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others."

"Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom."

"Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood."

"People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage."

"A new wound makes all the old ones ache again."

"We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs."

"We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?"

"If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream."

"The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well."

"Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first."

"It is always safe to tell people that they’re looking wonderful."

"It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child–at least till you try to get him to do something."

"There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it."

"Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us."

"We all dream of being the darling of everybody's darling."

"Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain."

"'Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can."

"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."

"Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result."

"If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject."

"Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud."

"The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for."