If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

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

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.