It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

That which costs little is less valued.

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.

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

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

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

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

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

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

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

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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

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