My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.
The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.