“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”

“One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.”

“What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.”

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”

“If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.”

“It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.”

“If you think about it, everyone is behind someone and in front of someone. The nature of the sphere, right? No one gets left at the end or is forced to take the lead, and in this way you might say the shape of the earth is democratic. There are hesitations, of course. There are lines going in ways that you wouldn’t imagine. People are passed up or passed over. The tempo is irregular and messy. If you thought about the entirety of it, the legs, the back and forth, it’s a fiasco, an anarchy of steps. It’s impossible. And there’s no way to tidy it or make it in any way manageable, not in one’s imagination or anywhere else.”