“Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.”

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

Not only the main event, the entire roster feels the pressure and are ready to deliver.

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.

I feel like I’m a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. .

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I’ve always had the power of foresight.

I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album ‘New York Groove’.