There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

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

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Nothing is black or white.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.