Overview

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.