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

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

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

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Freedom lies in being bold.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.