No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
I prefer love over sex.
Cruelty is the only sin.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
A man's fortune must first be changed from within.
There is no data on the future.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.
All that glisters is not gold.
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.