A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

By letting the IoT devices into our everyday life, it is not like we entered the zoo, but we released the animals into our world.

Without love life will be barren field.

The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.

The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

Most people spend their lives going to bed when they're not sleepy and getting up when they are!

If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.

Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years.

The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.