Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

A lie never lives to be old.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

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

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.