"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."

"I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it."

"In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower."

"I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas."

"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."

"And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill."

"Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person."

"Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood."

"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing."

"I find the question 'Why are we here?' typically human. I'd suggest 'Are we here?' would be the more logical choice."

"Every man's work shall be made manifest."

"Life is consciousness."