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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

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

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The day of individual happiness has passed

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

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

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.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.