I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

An idea is salvation by imagination

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

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.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Common sense is not so common.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.