Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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!
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.