After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
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.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
