If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable