“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.”

“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”

“We are not a household. We are an economy. Your spending is my income, and my spending is your income.”

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

“The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage – the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological (sic) traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors. A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race – and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.”

“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”

“It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

“Let a smile be your umbrella.”