A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.