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

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

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

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

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.