Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

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

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

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

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

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