People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.

When you wake up every morning, let thanksgiving be your first thought.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!

I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.