"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could."

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."

"Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same."

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

"A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man."

"Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water."

"Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them."

"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way."