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

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

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

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.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

There are no facts, only interpretations.