Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.