No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan, and raised an adolescent.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or...

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.