It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.