Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you’re likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you’re an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.
Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.
Kids don’t talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don’t necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.
I’m a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.