Optimist: someone who isn’t sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.
I’ve learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I’m not all that certain of the here.
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.
I find in old age that it’s possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.
It’s not that perfection cannot be achieved. It’s that it’s so hard to stop there.
As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.
God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.
As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, “You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do”
Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it’s all destiny.
There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one’s excuses.
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.