We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.