“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession.

I don’t care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.

And then you’ll consume them however you can. For example, I don’t really watch Showtime, but I bought ‘Homeland,’ and I’ve been watching every episode on my iPad.

The same way I want to spend time filling my mind with the best information I can acquire from the best sources I can obtain, I also want to consume nourishment from the best sources for my body.

That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death.

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?