If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?"No, " Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite!

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.