Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Be that self which one truly is.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.