If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Common sense is not so common.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

An idea is salvation by imagination

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

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