Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

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!

The past never leaves you. You carry it around with you for as long as you live, like a pale, stubborn worm lodged there in your gut, keeping you up at night.

Every woman should be treated like a queen, worshipped like a goddess, love like there's no tomorrow, and complimented at least 5 times a day.

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

I want God, not my idea of God.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

Disease is an image of thought externalized.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.