When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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

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

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.