Thomas Manne

Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.