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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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.

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

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

I am not now That which I have been.