When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Freedom is from within.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

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.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.