Heaven on earth is a choice you must make not a place you must find

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine

People tend to forget that the word history contains the word story

People everywhere confuse what they read in the newspaper with news

Always do right This will gratify some people and astonish the rest

It s better to be absolutely ridiculous than to be absolutely boring

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission

Philosophy can t build bridges but can encourage people to cross them

There s no money in poetry but then there s no poetry in money eithe

Those are my principles and if you don t like them well I have others

It s not that I m so smart it s just that I stay with problems longe

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen

To live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist that is all