The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

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.

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.

Freedom is from within.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

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

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.