There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A jug fills drop by drop.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Genius is sorrow's child.

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

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

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

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

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

Freedom is from within.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.