Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

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.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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!

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.