What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

You don't have to show people how successful you are.

My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.

Courage is ignoring your fear.

I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.