You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.