Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Humor is tragedy plus time.