By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.