The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Remember this - very little is needed to make a happy life.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.