If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
The day of individual happiness has passed
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
