The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Opinions are like hearts. Everyone has one, but they are not ALL healthy.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.

I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.

I talk to the universe all the time.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.