Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Be that self which one truly is.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

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

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Effective action is always unjust.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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

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

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

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

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.