Passion goes, Boredom remains.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

What is to give light must endure burning.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

That which costs little is less valued.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.