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.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

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

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

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

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

The day of individual happiness has passed

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

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