What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.
I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that. ' It just happens.
We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.