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

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.

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

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

An idea is salvation by imagination

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Effective action is always unjust.

Sunlight is painting.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.