Dr. Suess

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

I think I am basically a happy person.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.