A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

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

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.