An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

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

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

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.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

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

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

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

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.