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

I want to put a ding in the universe.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

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.

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.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

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

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

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

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

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

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.