Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

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

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

An idea is salvation by imagination

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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

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

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

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

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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