To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

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

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

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

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

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

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.