The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.

... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ...

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.