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

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

A good liar must have a good memory.

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.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

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

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.