An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.