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

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.