All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
A good liar must have a good memory.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
