He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Desire is the very essence of man.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.