I'll always be poor in my mind.

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

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Effective action is always unjust.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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

Comedy is acting out optimism.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.