The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.