Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.