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• Your life's priorities are in good order if you would rather risk your life skiing than shoveling snow.
• In the intercourse of life we please, often, by our defects than by our good qualities.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Perhaps we are wiser, less selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago.
  But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both....
• There is one surprise in life that we can still experience, and that is that there are some things in this life which can and do surprise us.
• How do we come to think of things, rather than of processes in this absolute flux?
  By shutting our eyes to the successive events. It is an artificial attitude that makes sections in the stream change, and calls them things....
• Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines.
  We are all of us looking for the key. And I wonder, how many of you here tonight have wasted years of your lives looking behind the kitchen dressers of this life for that key?...
• We were pretty good sharks ourselves once.
• THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
  The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that we live an incalculable number of times on this earth, in as many several bodies, because one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual developme...
• Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...