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.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.