A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.

I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

Be brave. Even if you're not pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

I don't even hate books anymore.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.