"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
"Property is organized robbery."
"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?"
"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."