Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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.

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.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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.

Thought is free.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

That which costs little is less valued.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.