I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Common sense is not so common.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.