Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

The purpose of education should be character-building.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Gin and tonics won't say "I love you" and neither will he.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Focusing on food and exercise changed my life.

The grand instructor, time.

Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.