Genius is full of trash.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

God seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey.

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.