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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

I am not now That which I have been.

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

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

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.