“Look at things and listen and feel.”

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

All thinking men are atheists.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.