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.

Common sense is not so common.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!