I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.