Don't Trust BlindlyIf in shark infested waters, don't assume the fin coming toward you is a dolphin.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

In Ireland a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'