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

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

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

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

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