Custom is the great guide to human life.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

You're here for a good time, not a long time.

I guess people naturally try to find meaning in music.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.