"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

"Type faces--like people's faces--have distinctive features indicating aspects of character"

"I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers."

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best."

"The key to your universe is that you can choose."

"Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them."

"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak."

"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right."

"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are."

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."