A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

I don't give a damn what people think.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Never give up your dreams and stay focused on your passions.

Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.