The future ain't what it used to be.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.