Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at
Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.
The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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