Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.