It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.