There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Riches make cowards of us.

Character is the best security.

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

Character comes before scholarship.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.

Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.