Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Nothing and no one can harm you unless you choose to allow it.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

The old myth is true. We see our environment as a mirror to our self-image. If we think we are weak, everybody will appear like a threat. If we think we are strong, we will try to help everyone.

I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.

he who will not economize will agonize

I don't like [Bashir] Assad at all. But Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS.

Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.

To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.