"An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court."

"Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious."

"Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age."

"Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work."

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

"Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired."

"Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold."

"One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks."