"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast."

"The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math."

"The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race."

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures..."

"Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election."

"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."

"You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light."

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."

"I think I am a verb."

"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps."