I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.