I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. - William Somerset Maugham

He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of the difference between himself and others.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?