By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

Life is always at some turning point.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

Change is to focus all your energy not in fixing the past but in recreating the future.

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.

If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time.

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.