Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

The future ain't what it used to be.

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

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

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

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

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.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The day of individual happiness has passed

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.