To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Renew thyself completely each day.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.