You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.