Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

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

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

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.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.