When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.