Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

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

The future ain't what it used to be.

That which costs little is less valued.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

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.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.