The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

paradise is under mama's feet

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.