"When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are."

"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise."

"...Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to a solitary confinement inside our own skins for life!"

"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

"Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy."

"Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself."

"The passions are the only orators that always persuade."

"You have to believe that the universe will provide."

"Blind belief is dangerous."

"God invented man, man invented the metric system."

"Home is where the heart is, so your real home's in your chest."