Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.