I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.