Dare to risk public criticism.

A lie never lives to be old.

Common sense is not so common.

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

Effective action is always unjust.

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

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.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

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

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.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

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

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.