There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Once we start writing with a pen, we are not allowed to erase our mistakes, we are forced to deal with it.

And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: “There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.