Dare to risk public criticism.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

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

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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.?

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Nothing is black or white.

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

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