No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Words are dangerous things.

To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

Costs merely register competing attractions.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

A temperate style is alone classical.

Your money is like your willy, it only grows if you play with it

Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written

I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.