My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)

Aspirations forms the plot of success.

Greatness can only be procured with the currency of time and discipline

Victories turned inside outBut no surrenderCemeteries of remorseThe beaten champion sobbingGhosts move in to shield his tears

Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.