"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out."

"We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility."

"What dogs want most in life is for no one to go away."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"The lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral."

"American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced."

"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things."

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior."

"By trying, we can endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

"Not to have felt pain is not to have been human."

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

"I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire."