Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

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

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Thought is free.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Freedom is from within.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator