I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

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

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.