Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

Joblessness is a rare privilege

I am wilderness and madness made flesh. You are just a girl" –he smiled, and the tips of his teeth were sharp–"and I am the wolf in the woods.

Love has not a value, though we treasure it dear, it's worth more than gold, that's why I keep you so near.

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.