He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

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.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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

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.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Common sense is not so common.