I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.