Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

It is only love that fuels the spirit of great deeds.

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.

There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.

America is a nation of immigrants. We have to have a functioning immigration system.