It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.