Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

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

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

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

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

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

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

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

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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