Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

I'd hate wearing suits every day.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.