There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

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

I want to put a ding in the universe.