There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.
Hunger is the handmaid of genius.