The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

It is my job to help the players react better.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.