It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place?

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.

The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

You certainly do have strange dreams.

How difficult it is to be simple.

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.