No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Boards don't hit back.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.