There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

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

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

The future ain't what it used to be.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.