A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

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.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

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

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.