A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

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.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Each soul is potentially divine.

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.

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

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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.

Sunlight is painting.

I am not now That which I have been.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

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

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