The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about.

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Silly me, Mr. Butterfingers.

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.