Ah, why should life all labor be?

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

For man is man and master of his fate.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

Haven't you ever played Uno?... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

You create your own life and your work. Give us your best.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.