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

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

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

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

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

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.