There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

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

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

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

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Humility is attentive patience.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

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

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

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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

Courage is grace under pressure.