Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
A joke's a very serious thing.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.