Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Nothing is black or white.

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.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.