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.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

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

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

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Thought is free.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

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.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.