Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.