It ain't over 'til it's over.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

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

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.