Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.

Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

When I doubt that I exist, I pinch myself.

Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

I've been saying for years that page view-based advertising is a corrupting force.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.