"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy."

"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any."

"We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school."

"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."

"My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too."

"The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums."

"The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice."

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

"Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings."

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."

"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."