“People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.”

“But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.”

“I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.”

“A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.”

“No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.”

“The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying.It was:'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?”

“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.”