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

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

The day of individual happiness has passed

Dare to risk public criticism.

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

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

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.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.