Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

What goes up must come down.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.