Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

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

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

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.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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