Seriously, this guy must have been constantly just speaking in quote-worthy nuggets. No lame jokes, banal sayings or uninspired, trivial chit-chat; just heavy-weight yet silky smooth truisms that are just a tiny little bit truer than all others. It is one of those cases where the variation is subtle but the difference is indeed disproportionately, or should we say, very well proportionedly disproportionately, large.
“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.”
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“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
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“Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.”
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“You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?”
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” (a personal classic with a story of its own, one of his saying I have known the longest and argued over the hardest)
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“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.”
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“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
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“Whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts.”
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
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“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”
Where I picked them from, a more complete list.
