Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

A woman in Germany gave birth to a 13 1/2 pound baby. That baby was so fat his first word was strudel.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?