The newest books are those that never grow old.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

The word reality frightens me.

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

I want us to do more to help small business. That's where two- thirds of the new jobs are going to come from.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

Have you not watched it yourself? Whenever you are total in something there is celebration.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.