Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Give up trying to make me give up

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

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.