A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

If I grow a business to its capacity, I will sell it the next day.

There are times when you have to commit a crime to prevent an even bigger one. At least, that’s what I tell myself when I can’t sleep at night.

America is not a country, it’s a business.

Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.

There have been some ups and downs, but I'm happy that I've stayed fairly consistent.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

With enough butter, anything is good

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.