Children have helped me a lot.
Edison, to a greater extent than has ever been recognized, is the father of American industrial methods.
An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.
I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.
Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.
Cutting wages is not the way to recovery. Raise wages and improve the product.
The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.
To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Very jaded and tired and depressed and crossÂ…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
