Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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

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.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A lie never lives to be old.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.