There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.