The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

book variables, student variables, and school variables.

Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.

As long as you fight the system, all of the things that are part of the tonal of the times, then you will be imbalanced and will not do well in the other levels of attention.

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

I love my mom to death.

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.