Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

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

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.