My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.