It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

A smile is like an instant facelift and an instant mood lift.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

All religions begin with the cry Help.