It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

Don’t be afraid to talk to yourself. It’s the only way you can be sure somebody’s listening.

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

It’s the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we’re paying somebody not to.

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

To understand all is to forgive all.

He who survives will see the outcome.

Life is an onion and one peels it crying.

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.