Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

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

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.