It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.