Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia

There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window.

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

The proper function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.