One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

You’ve gotta be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.