It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

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

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

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.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.