I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.