It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.