It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

Europeans are quarrelsome.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.