"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."
"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day."
"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."
"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."
"I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time."
"Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery."
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."