Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right.

Talking about pollution, nobody's holy.They who pollute, sinned against nature.

It is important not to become a prisoner of fate.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

The two championship years were that significant for me.

Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!