Thought is free.

A good liar must have a good memory.

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.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

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

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

Moonlight is sculpture.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

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.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

My specialty is detached malevolence.