Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
Freedom lies in being bold.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
Common sense is not so common.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.