What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.