Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
A person preaches well that lives well.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Once you label me you negate me.
