Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

An unrecorded goal is only a wish.

One truth is clear Whatever is is right.

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.

A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed to doing it, and in the long run does it.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?