Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

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

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

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.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Common sense is not so common.

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

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