You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Thought is free.

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

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.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

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

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Humility is attentive patience.

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