“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.”

“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.”

“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.”

“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.”

“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”

“If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.”

“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.”

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”