Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

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.

Give up trying to make me give up

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.