Genius is sorrow's child.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

I am not now That which I have been.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I want to put a ding in the universe.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

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

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

What is to give light must endure burning.

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.