One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

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

Genius is sorrow's child.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Freedom lies in being bold.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

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.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

A lie never lives to be old.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Once you label me you negate me.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

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