Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

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

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

Humility is attentive patience.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

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

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

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.