The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

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

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

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

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Thought is free.

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

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

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.