The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.