Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

The moment you're born you're done for.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Women are strange and incomprehensible a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment.

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

One of the commonest characteristics of the successful man is his idleness, his immense capacity for wasting time.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.