Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

It is a happiness to wonder

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.

I suffer from the congenital weakness of believing I can do anything.

The one who comes to know [the eternal truth], will awaken. The one who is wrongly believing will not awaken.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees.

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.