“The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

“[A] brilliant man is his own best company, unless he can find other company of the same sort.”

“Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.”

“Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there”

“The man that owned the company that I worked for called me into the office and said how can you be on our payroll and have your own New York Times ad! This has to stop! And I said but it can't I have orders to ship. And he said well you're fired. And that's how I started my business.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“I think that Man in creating God somewhat overestimated his abilities.”

“To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”