the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance

The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.

Everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.

2 Corinthians 3:17. Now the Lord is the Spirit...is that the one you like?

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.