Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

We choose to embrace a quest, and we choose to live for adventure.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.

Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.

Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.

I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.