Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

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.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

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

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

I am not now That which I have been.

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

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.