I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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

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

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

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

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

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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

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