Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

An idea is salvation by imagination

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Dare to risk public criticism.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.