If This Isn't Nice, What Is?

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”

I will tell you how to make money: work very hard. I will tell you how to win love: wear nice clothing and smile all the time.

“We have to be constantly jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

war only made billionaires out of millionaires

Notice when you’re happy, and know when you’ve got enough.

So I hope that you will do the same for the rest of your lives. When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud, “If this isn’t nice, what is?”

Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft.

I hope you know that television and computers are no more your friends, and no more increasers of your brainpower, than slot machines. All they want is for you to sit still and buy all kinds of junk, and play the stock market as though it were a game of blackjack

You should know that when a husband and wife fight, it may seem to be about money or sex or power.

But in our personal lives, our inner lives, at least, we can learn to live without the sick excitement, without the kick of having scores to settle with this particular person, or that bunch of people, or that particular institution or race or nation.