Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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!
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
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 am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
