When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

In the present, every day is a miracle.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

In the present every day is a miracle.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

It doesn't matter where anybody lives, we're all here.

Basketball has brought me a lot of joy, brought me a lot of good things. Just that side of it has really affected me.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

He who is less than just is less than man.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.