All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Common sense is not so common.

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

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

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.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.