<p>Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.</p>

<p>It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.</p>

<p>There is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.</p>

<p>I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.</p>

<p>Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.</p>

<p>Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.</p>

<p>A conversation is a dialogue$$$ not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity$$$ two intelligent talkers seldom meet.</p>

<p>Be anything but a coward$$$ a pretender$$$ an emotional crook$$$ a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.</p>

<p>He had been bored$$$ that's all$$$ bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen$$$ even loveless slavery$$$ even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!</p>

<p>When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person$$$ you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter$$$ I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.</p>