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

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

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

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

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

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.