“A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.”

“The future is much like the present, only longer.”

“There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.”

“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”

“If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.”

“You should not live one way in private, another in public.”

“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”

“Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead.”

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

“[It’s] time for the human race to enter the solar system.”

“I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.”

“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.”

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”

“There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.”

“The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.”

“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

“The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.”

“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”

“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”

“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.”

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

“What we play is life.”

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

“Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.”

“To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.”

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”

“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

“What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.”

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”

“A schedule defends from chaos and whim.”

“She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.”

“Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.”

“One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.”

I'm not feeling very well, I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

“Nothing is said that has not been said before.”

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”

“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”