Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

The day of individual happiness has passed

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Be that self which one truly is.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

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

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

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