It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

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.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

I believe in the power of weakness.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

People always identify a vehicle on the grille.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation.

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

I'm pretty chirpy. I can talk a little too much smack.