Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

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.

Can-do" is the parent of "Have-done". No passion, no production!

Drama don't arrive by surprise

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

I was going to move back to Dallas, and my goal was to work at Channel 8 and be a sportscaster and cover my Cowboys and live happily ever after.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

I really hate pain. I'd pull my own soul out if it meant I could stop the pain.