I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
When you first learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.
More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat.
A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.