A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.

Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.

And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.

I want peace. Happiness. Not only for myself. For everybody.

I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.