"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in yo…"

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."

"The only difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector is that the taxidermist leaves the hide."

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and…"