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.

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

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.

Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.

In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

I love a guy who can make me laugh.