Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Humility is attentive patience.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

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

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.