A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

What cannot be said, will get wept.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.

There is good and bad in everyone.

My own personal experience has become more first-hand.