"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."

"We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it."

"We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy; whiskey and action are easier."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Money is the best counterfeit money."

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

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

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

"How strange that the young should always think the world is against them when in fact that is the only time it is for them."

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

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

"The plague of government is senile delinquency."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time."

"Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality."