A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Freedom is from within.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.