I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

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.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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

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.