An idea is salvation by imagination

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Humility is attentive patience.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

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