“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.”
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”
“We are the United States of Amnesia; we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”
“I never miss a chance to have sex—or appear on television.”
“Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.”
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
“The unfed mind devours itself.”
“Any American who is prepared to run for president should be disqualified by definition.”
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”
“To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never to die.”
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
“Our wit is often the product of our misfortunes.”
“The first days of spring are as cold as the last days of winter.”
“Men despise great things if they are not familiar with them.”
“The greatest achievement is to be yourself in a world that constantly tries to make you something else.”
“Clarity is the courtesy of the philosopher.”