Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.