The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

Though it were proved that there was never an Aryan race in the past, yet we desire that in the future there may be one. This is the decisive standpoint for men of action.

To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.