To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.