Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Morality like physical cleanliness is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

The doubter doesn't sure which one is right, but it tends to demean other people's beliefs.

Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.