Life isn't about the years you lived. It is about how you lived.

Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks.

You haven't lived till you have laughed and made others laugh.

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

The art is long, life is short

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.