There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

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

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.