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

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

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

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

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

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.