To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.