Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.

AIMS without MEANS are USELESS.

You love her for a life time and still you are a stranger.

Retirement from Job does not mean retirement from life! It is the beginning not an end!

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.

I am happiest when I am alone.

The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.