All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.