The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The voice is a second signature.
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
Live and let live.
Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.
Showing up is eighty percent of life.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most, an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.
Little by little does the trick.
All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
Reason, with most people, means their own opinions.
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.
Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.