I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.