Joel That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed No thanks.
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life.
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people they're just acquaintances.
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.