Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
Every hour has its end.
Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.