The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Each soul is potentially divine.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

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

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

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

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.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.