New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

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

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

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.