Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.