Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.

Be bold, speak from your heart.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

True change happens within not without

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

The me that's me right now is yours. Always.