All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
A good liar must have a good memory.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
