It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

All art is quite useless.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.