Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.