Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

Any time that is spent or wasted is a life wasted or spent.

My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire.

I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.

She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete

Winter is beautiful, but bed is better.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.