I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.