The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.