How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Freedom is from within.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Be that self which one truly is.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

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

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Genius is sorrow's child.