H. L. Mencken

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.