The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

The key is loveIt is the gatewayTo hopeTo joyTo enhanced livingLove is the answer

I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.

When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the limit's the sky.

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

Women hold up half the sky.

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.