Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

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.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.