The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

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

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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.

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

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'