If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, it’s more the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.