Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

We might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

Painting is so much more than the materials.

I love karaoke; you have to wail when you do karaoke.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise.