Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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

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

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Thought is free.