You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work read more

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the read more

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the read more

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.

And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of read more

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].

To be human means to feel inferior.

To be human means to feel inferior.