All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

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.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

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.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.