Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

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

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

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

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Be that self which one truly is.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.