I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.