Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Moonlight is sculpture.

The future ain't what it used to be.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

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.

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

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.