No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

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

Jests that give pains are not jests.

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.

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

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

What is to give light must endure burning.

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

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

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