He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

You’re my home, Susanna. My home, my heart, my dearest love. Wherever you are, that’s where I belong. Always.” - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff

The man who gives the world fusion, will give the world everything.

It is through our pain that we emerge.

A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.