Happiness is never grand.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.