An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
A person preaches well that lives well.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
The future ain't what it used to be.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
