Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!