"Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery."

"I only drink to make other people seem interesting."

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

"Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

"I drink to make other people seem more interesting."

"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness."

"Continual improvement is an unending journey."

"I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."

"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."

"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it."

"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."