“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.”
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.”
“A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.”
“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”
“A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.”
“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”
“Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
“The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.”
“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
“Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.”
“Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.”
“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
“To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.”
“[A]rt is limitation. [...] The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
“I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.”
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
“The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.”
“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.”
“The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.”
“Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.”
“Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.”
“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”
“One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”
“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”
“Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
“The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.”