A lie never lives to be old.

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

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

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

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

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

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

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

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.