The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

We ought to love and be gentle with one another.

We can't give a child a natural consequence. The only truly natural consequences are the ones found in nature.

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's wrong, isn't it?

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

If there can be no love without hate, then I love to hate hate.