Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.

Let's give the historians something to write about

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

The vitamin, mineral, metal and oil content of the human body drastically alters its reactivity to radiation exposures.

Cowboy!" she hollered.Every man on the street turned to stare at her."--pg.117

In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

The new is not a fashion, it is a value.