1. "A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life."
2. “A mystic is a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the nonexistent.”
3. ”A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”
4. “Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
5. “A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.”
6. ”Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
7. “Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.”
8. "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out alive."
9. “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
10. “Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom—for himself.”
11. “Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
12. ”If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”
13. “In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.”
14. “It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”
15. "I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."
16. “Life is just one damned thing after another.”
17. “Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
18. “Logic -- an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.”
19. “Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
20. “Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.”
21. ”One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
22. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
23. “Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
24. “So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.”
25. “Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.”
26. “The brain is a commodity . . . used to fertilize ideas.”
27. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one”.
28. “The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
29. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
30. “The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.”
31. “The more one knows, the more one simplifies.”
32. “There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
33. "There was one who thought he was above me, and he was above me until he had that thought."
34. “The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”
35. “The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
36. “This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
37. ”To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
38. “To escape criticism - say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
39. “To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.”
