You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.