For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

Iraq is a strange country. Where else can American civilians like me be protected by terrorist human shields?

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

Setting goals is the first important step in achieving success in an activity. It's a reminder of what you are working towards.

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.