A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Nothing can dim the light of your love.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?