I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
The day of individual happiness has passed
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.