Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

When you can't change a thing, don't let it change you.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Most people's lives are fuzzy. That's the problem with the world. No one stops to think.

When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.

No one likes to be criticized.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.