I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

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

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

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.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

The day of individual happiness has passed

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Courage is grace under pressure.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Effective action is always unjust.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.