“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

No good deed goes unpunished.

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Poverty is a cruel disease but curable with intelligence and hard work.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.