Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

At the end of your struggles, challenges, and obstacles comes the mental strength to cross many boundaries in the future.

Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.