We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

In the end, everything is a gag.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.