An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

We want playmates we can own.

No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.