Read to live, not live to read.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Better things will follow you when you do good things to others.

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.