In the end, everything is a gag.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Any place I hang my head is home.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.