Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival?
Those who tell us that they deny the existence of God are merely substituting one god for another.
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of both.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
I believe that the best way to prepare fore for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
He who doesn't understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
Taxpayer: A government worker with no vacation, no sick leave and no holidays.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Woman need experience to choose man, and a lack of experience to trust him.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.
Who says what he should, does not say what he thinks.
What matters in art is not thinking but making.
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools.
Wine is "light held together by moisture."
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
[Hypothesis] Something murdered by facts.
Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
Sex is the thing that takes the least time and causes the most trouble.
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.
Silence is safer than speech.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
