A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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

The future ain't what it used to be.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

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