Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Sunlight is painting.

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.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The day of individual happiness has passed

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

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Nothing is black or white.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

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

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

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

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.