All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.