The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Moonlight is sculpture.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!
The future ain't what it used to be.
Humility is attentive patience.